The following statement was released today by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), in response to news reports of a secret directive signed by President Bush to give the CIA blanket authorization to engage in the practice of "extraordinary rendition” -- sending persons in US custody to other countries for interrogation, even when those other... Read More

Washington D.C. - With the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) Review Conference only a week away the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill will travel to China today in a Hail Mary effort to entice North Korea back into talks on its nuclear programs. Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program resumed today in Beijing, North Korea continued to insist on its right to civilian atomic technology, despite the fact that cooperation on this technology from the U.S. and U.S.-origin technology from South Korea and Japan is barred by recent changes in U.S.... Read More

Statement of Introduction, February 17, 2005 Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) made the following statement in response to President Bush’s remarks at a White House press briefing today. "I am disturbed that even today President Bush continued to defend the practice of ‘outsourcing torture’ by rendering prisoners to countries known to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Although the U.S. Congress has yet to ratify the controversial Bush-Singh agreement to lift the ban on U.S. exports of controlled nuclear goods to India, the U.S. Department of Commerce is already relaxing export guidelines on the sale and export of nuclear materials. Three months after President Bush welcomed Indian Prime... Read More

 Copy of Letter to DOE, February 17, 2005   Read More

 Commerce Department Response, December 17, 2005 Rep. Markey Letter to the Commerce Department, October 11, 2005   Read More

  Letter to House Armed Services Committee, May 9, 2005  Letter to Appropriations Committee, May 9, 2005 Read More

 Rep. Markey Letter to DOE, February 1, 2005 Read More

"Stop Outsourcing of Torture Act", H.R. 952 Read More

Markey Floor Statement, March 15, 2005 Read More

 State Department Response to Rep. Markey Inquiry, May 20, 2005 Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Congress took a critical step towards ending the U.S. policy of outsourcing torture today, passing an  amendment, offered by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), prohibiting the use any funds included in the supplemental bill to be used to the contravention of legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture, with a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- One day after a military judge tossed out the plea agreement of Abu Ghraib prison guard Pfc. Lynndie England who was accused of torturing prisoners, Congress sent a critical message to the country about the US’s commitment to ending torture by passing the supplemental bill which included language similar to that offered by... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- After years of foot-dragging the Bush Administration will submit a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture today detailing its compliance with the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Yesterday, Congress passed the supplemental bill which included language... Read More

 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following statement was released today by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) author of HR 952, “the Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act”, in response to new Human Rights Watch report detailing the U.S. government practice of using “diplomatic assurances” to justify sending our prisoners to countries known... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Twice in the last week, the House of Representatives has voted to approve amendments offered by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) which would prohibit the use of any funds in contravention of legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture. “The Congress has sent a clear message: we neither condone nor endorse... Read More

“Over the years ChoicePoint has learned a lot about the private lives of millions of American citizens. Now, Americans are beginning to learn a whole lot more about ChoicePoint, and they do not like what they’re discovering. It is time that ChoicePoint took some steps to secure the personal information of millions of Americans,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), senior member of the Homeland Security Committee and author the Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act, H.R. 952, sent a letter to President Bush today asking why for more than two years UN human rights experts have been denied full access to facilities and prisoners held at the U.S. base in... Read More